Prayers for Coach Giles

Minneapolis Wrestling Coach Jeff Giles was airlifted to Wichita today during the Phillipsburg tournement! Pray for him and his family.

Wow...will do!

Prayers heading up right now for Jeff and his family!!

Any updates on Giles?

Unconscious and has to have help breathing! I did hear from my son that he moved his finger this morning!

Prayers to Coach Jeff
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Wishing Coach Giles a speedy recovery.

... thinking about Coach Giles.

Praying for Coach Giles the family.

Coach Giles had surgery this morning and Dr's said it went well. Thats all the news so far.

Latest is that Coach Giles is having a setback post surgery. Please continue to pray for this man and his family.

Minneapolis Wrestling Coach Jeff Giles
Minneapolis Wrestling Coach Jeff Giles was airlifted to Wichita today during the Phillipsburg tournement! Pray for him and his family.

3-2-1A Coach of the Year - 2002
JEFF GILES
Minneapolis High School

The 3-1A coaches selected Jeff Giles from Minneapolis High School as their Coach of the Year award recipient. Giles led his squad to a sixth-place finish at state with three individual state champions. His team had a 13-0 dual record and placed third at regionals. The Minneapolis squad also won the conference championship and placed first at the Minneapolis Invitational also.
Giles has been coaching at Minneapolis for 15 years, winning three conference team titles (1991, 1992, and 2002). He has a conference dual record of 57-15 and overall dual record of 150-44-1. He has coached seven state champions and 27 state medal-winners overall.
Giles was a state wrestling placer in high school in Missouri. He went on to be a three-year letter winner at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo., and was a three year starter. He graduated from SMSU in 1987.
He also was a World Cup Bench Press champion in 1995 as part of the Natural Athletic Strength Association.
Giles, who teaches K-8 Physical Education and Health, was also named the Kansas Wrestling Officials Association Sportsmanship Coach of the Year award winner in 2002 as well.

There will be a prayer gathering at Minneapolis High School tonight @7:00 p.m. for Jeff and family.

Thoughts and prayers to the Giles Family and all the wrestlers he has influenced over the years. Awesome coach. And even better person.

Coach is ok and stable! I WAS GIVEN very bad information and I apologize for post! Again he is stable!

Please pray for Coach Giles and his family. The latest update...Coach has continued to go downhill since his surgery - the doctors have advised his family to say their goodbye's

Very sad situation

Prayers from our Manhattan Wrestling Community. Coach Giles and Family need all of us at this time. RMG/37

Prayers sent to Coach Giles, and his family.


Hays Wrestling Club

Jeff has been a friend of mine for a long time. Myself and our whole wrestling community in Concordia are praying for him and his family.

any updates of Coach Gile's condition?

Coach Giles is Great guy! Prayers for strength and peace coming from the Marion wrestling community!!

Great Coach and great guy. The Oberlin Red Devil wrestling community prays for Jeff and his family.

Many of Jeff's SMSU teammates/college friends have been saying prayers.

Coach Giles passed away today after suffering from a stoke Saturday. Please continue to give thoughts and prayers to his family.

May God give comfort and peace to Jeff's family, friends, and wrestlers.

Jeff was an outstanding young man whom I had the tremendous pleasure of first coaching against him when he was a great competitor wrestling in college at Southwest Missouri State and then making an immediate friendship with him when he arrived on the KS coaching scene in Minneapolis. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones. Wayne Petterson

Prayers to Jeff's family from the Ellis Wrestling Club.

Such sad news about Coach Giles! I will be praying for him, his wrestlers, and his family.

Sad to hear this news, Coach Giles was one of those good guys. Prayers to him, family, and his wrestling family, he will be missed.

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The Goodland wrestling community sends our prayers and thoughts to coach Giles family and to the Minneapolis community, I did not know coach Giles but our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, this is such sad news. Terry Bahe and family.

I dont know what to post other than God is lucky to have him! As far as the wrestling commuity, we where fortunite and blessed to know a loving and caring man, coach! Gods speed!

Great coach, even better person. Will truly be missed.

Trego Community Wrestling family sending prayers to Coach Gile's family and wrestlers.

Garden City wrestling family sends prayers to Coach Gile's family! God Bless all!

Words cannot express my sadness to the Giles family. Jeff was a great guy, always happy, always fair, cared so very much about each and every athlete he ever coached. He had a passion to teach and coach every wrestler about wrestling and about life! I have always held him in the very highest of respect, as a coach and a person. I am blessed to have known him. God bless you my friend!
You and your family will remain in my prayers. Harry LaMar

Great words Coach LaMar. This is extremely sad, for school & community, mostly the family. Very tough time. I only met him once, when he was presented his 321A Coach of the Year Award, he seemed like such a great guy & great educator.

Sad day for the State of Kansas and for the wrestling community. He was a good man and his wrestlers competed hard for him every time they stepped on the mat, which shows the respect they had for him. The wrestling community, or family as I like to call it, is so strong and so close that we all mourn and suffer when we lose one of our own. This proves to the fact that their is a higher power in charge who was ready for Coach Giles to come home. Romans 14:8- "If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord." God Bless u Coach Giles and your family

I couldn't post on the site earlier because I was not a member and had to register but I have been reading all of the posts on here about Jeff. I have been a good friend of Jeff Giles and his entire family since grade school. Jeff and I were close in high school and college and he was one of the best guys I have ever known and a great athlete who had the highest integrity and sportsmanship. Even back then he would always be giving us little pieces of advice like he knew something we all had not caught on to yet. It has been several years since I have seen him but he always had a smile. In high school he had his ornery side but always in a fun way and we got into lots of fun and mishaps. Him coming to Minneapolis and meeting his wife, Dina, was one of the best things to happen for him. I know he loved coaching and the community and his family and students. I think he came out there because of our high school coach, Coach Crockett. I know he was a pillar of the community in Minneapolis and the overall wrestling community in KS and such a role model. I live in Indianapolis now but there is no way I would not make it out to see him off for his funeral to his final home. I will miss my friend and brother very much.

Just wanted to share.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, the Minneapolis Community and the wrestling family. God gained another one of our special "wrestling angel" ...


Leanna Grater & family

Former student remembers Kansas coach - video on the news

http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/kans...ie/-/index.html

Devastating is the only word I can think of. Devastating to the Giles family, the Minneapolis wrestling family, the Minneapolis school community, and the Kansas wrestling family. Sad. So very, very sad.

http://www.wilsonfamilyfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2413110&fh_id=13469



Jeffrey M. Giles
(July 28, 1963 - February 11, 2014)
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Jeffrey M. GilesMemorial services will be at 2:00 P.M., Saturday, February 15 at the First Covenant Church, 2625 E. Magnolia, Salina. Burial will be in Bennington Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Friday at the Wilson Family Funeral Home, Minneapolis; the family will not be present. The family kindly suggests no flowers and ask that memorials be given for the Giles girls college education or the First Covenant Church and may be left in care of Wilson Family Funeral Home, 405 Argyle Avenue, Minneapolis, KS 67467.

Prayers and strength for the Giles family during this difficult time.

The Lambottes

Coach, I read this article earlier today. I never met Coach Giles but from what I have read (on the forum and in this article), he made one heck of a positive impact on a lot of peoples' lives. I am sure that those he impacted will know how to overcome such a terrible loss and make a positive impact on other peoples' lives in the future.

Very sad deal. R.I.P Jeff Giles

Salina Journal

MINNEAPOLIS -- A gymnasium packed with people stood in silence Tuesday night and paid tribute to a mentor and inspiration to the town and Minneapolis schools.

Jeff Giles, head wrestling and football coach, died earlier that day at a Wichita hospital, and the Minneapolis Lions played their basketball games with him in mind, said Larry Combs, superintendent of schools.

"He's a tremendous coach and friend. Everybody has such deep respect for him and his family," Combs said.

Pastors were at the junior-senior high school Wednesday morning to help students, faculty and staff cope with the loss.

Giles, 50, collapsed Saturday at a wrestling event in Phillipsburg. He was flown to a Wichita hospital, Combs said. Giles died Tuesday.

Combs wouldn't speculate on what caused the coach's death.

"We got the call early (Tuesday) afternoon that Coach Giles had died," Combs said.

Giles spent his entire 26-year career in the Minneapolis school system, including 16 years as a physical education teacher at the Delphos attendance center. That school was closed in 2003.

He was the Lions' head wrestling and football coach and an assistant coach on the track team. He taught physical education and was involved in a youth wrestling program.

"He painted most of the houses in the community during the summer," Combs said.

Giles and his wife, Dina, have three daughters -- Emma, Lucy and Caroline. Lucy, a senior, plays on the basketball team but didn't suit up for the Tuesday night home game against Ellsworth, Combs said.

After meeting with the basketball players, he said, members of both teams decided Coach Giles would want them to play the game. The girls' team won at the buzzer, Combs said.

The moment of silence occurred between the two varsity games, he said.

"All of the kids in this building are connected to (Giles). He touched a tremendous amount of lives," Combs said. "Even though I'm 14 years older, I learned from him and he was a friend. They broke the mold when they made him."

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Covenant Church, 2625 E. Magnolia. A complete obituary is on Page A4 in today's Journal.

The wrestling team opted not to compete in any events this week, Combs said, but will return to action in the regional tournament beginning Feb. 21 in Hoisington.

"They have great assistant wrestling coaches," Combs said. "They are forging ahead."
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The Rossville Wrestling Programs would like to send our thoughts and prayers to Coach Giles's family, friends, community and his wrestling program.

Shari Gentry
Rossville Wrestling Club

We had a moment of silence for Jeff at the Mid East League tonight right after the Wrestlers for Christ prayer. So very powerful and moving! Wrestling fans are awesome! God Bless you Jeff Giles!!

Will be praying for Coach Giles' family, students, wrestlers, and all of the former students and teachers he mentored throughout his career. I have great memories of my first years' of coaching at Russell High School battling against Coach Giles and his Minneapolis teams. Jeff was a great person and an even better role model.

We also had a moment of silence after the Wrestlers for Christ prayer. We couldn't be at the services because we were hosting the Central Kansas League tournament, but our thoughts and prayers with Coach Giles and all.